Key Facts

• The FBI used Exterro’s AI platform during the urgent investigation of the attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
• Exterro’s tool helps investigators manage and search through digital evidence like messages, social media, and surveillance footage.
• The platform can run on secure, offline systems to keep data safe and private.
• Investigators can ask the AI questions to find evidence such as images or confirm a person’s location at a specific time.
• The Justice Department reviewed devices, accounts, travel, financial records, and hotel surveillance as part of the investigation.
• Exterro does not use customer data to train its AI, and human investigators still make final decisions on evidence.
• Courts face challenges in verifying AI-analyzed evidence to make sure it is genuine and not manipulated.
• Exterro also provides tools to detect deepfakes, which are fake videos or images created using AI.